It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In late sunshine I wander troubled.
Restless I wander in autumn ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. This Stone
He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looki...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
LEWIS N. ROE A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER We are simply two good people with equally flawed pasts, looking for perfect futures. And I think we...
K.A. TUCKER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL There’s no getting better, Storm. This is it.” There’s no coming back from the dead.
K.A. TUCKER Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil.
but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE Warning: Contains old friends, old enemies, a dramatic cat rescue, soft drink references and a lot o...
K.A. MITCHELL Do You think it matters if they're tiny or deep? he asked. Well, if they're not tiny breaths and the...
K.A. TUCKER See that stream over there?" I stretch an arm to point out the small branch coming off the lake. "It...
K.A. TUCKER How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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URSULA K. LE GUIN As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To oppose something is to maintain it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
URSULA K. LE GUIN In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in wo...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There are no right answers to wrong questions.
URSULA K. LE GUIN What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
URSULA K. LE GUIN The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
URSULA K. LE GUIN My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust every...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, m...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, make...
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
URSULA K. LE GUIN We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps chan...
URSULA K. LE GUIN If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Heaven and earth
begin in the unnamed:
name’s the mother
of the ten thousand things...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. T...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to...
URSULA K. LE GUIN When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
URSULA K. LE GUIN If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what come...
URSULA K. LE GUIN No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very...
URSULA K. LE GUIN But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The creative adult is the child who has survived.
URSULA K. LE GUIN He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
URSULA K. LE GUIN There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you lea...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Not even need and love can defeat fate...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The best I can say, it's like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell ... It's hard ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
URSULA K. LE GUIN "In innocence there is no strength against evil," said
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URSULA K. LE GUIN I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
URSULA K. LE GUIN We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
URSULA K. LE GUIN War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to �...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to �...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. An...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I bid your voice be dumb until the day you find a word worth speaking.
URSULA K. LE GUIN He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what h...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was no...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...
URSULA K. LE GUIN 'The fact is,' I said, 'that you're unable, or unwilling, to believe in the fact that I believe in ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quit...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely r...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To light a candle is to cast a shadow...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of wh...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what come...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is...
URSULA K. LE GUIN If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words eve...
URSULA K. LE GUIN If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go t...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult g...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Se...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...
URSULA K. LE GUIN My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and go...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry."
"Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "the...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful functio...
URSULA K. LE GUIN They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the
darkness, and they do not come back. The place they...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that w...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean w...
URSULA K. LE GUIN This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your min...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it s...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
URSULA K. LE GUIN When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgot...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?
URSULA K. LE GUIN My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
URSULA K. LE GUIN ... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dange...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Eith...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law bu...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't the...
URSULA K. LE GUIN An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
URSULA K. LE GUIN Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
URSULA K. LE GUIN But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
URSULA K. LE GUIN A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the fore...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge ...
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URSULA K. LE GUIN Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and wen...
URSULA K. LE GUIN On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and black...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There must be darkness to see the stars.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......
URSULA K. LE GUIN A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice
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URSULA K. LE GUIN I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to p...
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URSULA K. LE GUIN In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: t...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsi...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issu...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I wr...
URSULA K. LE GUIN This Stone
He went looking for a road
that doesn't lead to death.
He went looki...
URSULA K. LE GUIN As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist...
URSULA K. LE GUIN So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Why are men afraid of women?"
If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,"...
URSULA K. LE GUIN But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?
URSULA K. LE GUIN Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally ass...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I don’t like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don’t want to live ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made al...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Praise God from whom all blessings flow, including good-natured men.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his in...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.
URSULA K. LE GUIN He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It...
URSULA K. LE GUIN It was more than dignity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possib...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made...
URSULA K. LE GUIN But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, rec...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the ti...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, an...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
outside things and run them...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the ti...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatene...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV se...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was re...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that di...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in eit...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Truth is a matter of the imagination.
URSULA K. LE GUIN If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, tho...
URSULA K. LE GUIN So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without ca...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are inn...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibi...
URSULA K. LE GUIN For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.
URSULA K. LE GUIN In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster
was a st...
URSULA K. LE GUIN But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them bot...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.
URSULA K. LE GUIN